The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

A portable device with some compromises I recently surveyed a bunch of students about the most important aspects of a high school or college laptop. Because at $649 list price (it’s about $673 on Amazon at time of press), the question isn’t “Does this laptop knock your socks off?” It’s got a budget laptop look. The Swift 3 is 2.65

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re now working at home, if your kids are now learning at home, if you’re just stuck at home and looking for a good computing experience, you may be in the market for a new laptop. What follows are reviews of a variety of laptops that you might want to consider for the use of yourself and your family. (It Windows 10 laptops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. In-person participants will need to bring their own laptops). For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting?

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. But the Spin 513 has a quite nice 1920 x 1080 screen, which is as good of a resolution as you’ll ever see on any laptop at this price.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Shortly after the Colorectal Cancer Coalition was incorporated as an organization in March 2005 we hired an admin, bought her a laptop and gave her a desk in a tiny single room office sublet from another organization in Washington, DC. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. Didn't happen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

This tool is a simple way to create graphics of inspirational quotes or powerful stats that can then also be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Google+. Quozio is a simple tool that enables to create images of quotes that can be uploaded to Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Google Wallet :: google.com/wallet.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

At Nonprofit Hub, we use Google for everything—and I mean everything. From our calendars, to our email accounts, to important documents and spreadsheets, Google is our best friend. Google gives you virtually unlimited storage, easy sharing and compatibility with tons of apps and websites all for FREE. And why wouldn’t it be?

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Open one too many tabs on a few-year-old laptop, and your fan starts spinning, your battery life dips, your system starts to slow. Mighty claims it’ll eliminate distracting cookies and ads, automatically notify you about Zoom meetings, quick search Google Docs and presumably other integrations to come. Skeptical?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

After trying Google's Chromebook for his personal use, Beaty suggested that the organization try it too : A small underfunded non-profit (I volunteer there) has 11 employees. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be replaced by a free Google Apps for Education account. I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

inches, it’s a typical size for a tablet, but if you’re trying to use it the way you’d use a work laptop (with dozens of tabs and Windows side by side, for example) things get cramped. Docs and Spotify each crashed once or twice, but it wasn’t a rampant problem. Both were actually better than the webcams I tend to see on laptops.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Google has tweaked the appearance of the compose button in Gmail’s Android app. I’m sure that Google’s floating compose buttons — which it uses across other G Suite apps like Drive and Docs — are the result of hours of testing that show that users easily find buttons when they’re positioned on the bottom right of the screen.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you bought a new Windows laptop on Black Friday or received one as a gift, you may be struggling to figure out which apps to download. Google Drive. Google Drive. Check out Google Drive for a cloud-based alternative to Dropbox. The free version of Google Drive gives you 15GB of storage. Never fear. Dolby Access.

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The Verge

JULY 3, 2020

A massive laptop you probably don’t need Seventeen! This laptop has a 17-inch screen. It’s very unusual to see a 17-inch laptop under four pounds — let alone under three. For that niche, though, this laptop tracks. For that niche, though, this laptop tracks. A laptop so light usually comes with major caveats. (I

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Master of the multitask I’ve never really understood the appeal of 17-inch laptops. They are often too big to carry around easily or use on your actual lap like you might want to do with a laptop from time to time. Either way, this is firmly in premium laptop territory. It lists for $2,649.99 It has a 5.53-pound

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This is what the future of the Mac looks like Last week might’ve been the most important week of this year for consumer laptops. Apple announced its new M1 chip, which, if the company’s claims about performance gains are to be believed, could redefine our expectations for laptop processors. Google can translate over 100 languages.).

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

Even a word doc you update every time you’re on site for a client is better than notes scribbled on post-its. I also have a remote connection to my home (business) laptop available at all times. 0) above and beyond all, google rules. How did we ever do tech support before google? Make sure this is agreed to. -

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

That’s fairly midrange as Chromebooks go, but it significantly undercuts some competitors from Samsung, Google, and Asus. A few corners have been cut, but the fact that they’re even worth mentioning is a testament to how excellent this laptop is. The Spin 713 starts at $629 (and has been on sale for $529 already ).

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2021

AMD helps bring OLED to the mainstream Seeing a laptop with an OLED screen at a sub-$1,000 price point is wild. But if there’s anyone I’d trust to make sub-$1,000 OLED happen, it’s Asus, one of the masters of affordable, portable laptops. Most unsurprisingly, the ZenBook 13 OLED dominated both of those laptops on battery life.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Joining a FaceTime call from a Windows laptop is eerily similar to joining a Zoom or Google Meet call — you click the link, the call opens in your browser, you’re asked to enter your name, and you wait around until the host lets you in. I could use Portrait Mode in both Zoom and Google Meet but couldn’t use the microphone controls.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. As a result, he finds that people in NGOs in the region are beginning to use cloud computing services like Google Docs and Hotmail , but are often not aware that those applications they are using are in the cloud, or what exactly cloud computing is.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines. Tablet adoption is very brisk.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Elite Folio is a lightweight, leather-covered, convertible Windows laptop powered by a Snapdragon processor with Arm architecture. The Folio is a convertible laptop, but you have more than the usual tent, tablet, and clamshell options. I think this is the first laptop I’ve ever reviewed that I wish had slightly larger bezels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Many industries rely on cloud-based document platforms like Google Docs for sharing and collaboration, but while copywriters and sales folks probably find the standard office suite sufficient, that’s not necessarily the case for scientists whose disciplines demand special documentation and formatting.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Dropbox sits nicely between formal, full featured project communications tools such as Basecamp (which we also use), Central Desktop , or Google Apps and Docs.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

It renders documents well on the screen, nearly as well as on a laptop, and allows users to do a surprising amount of formatting, particularly within Word docs. It is also well-integrated and can store documents in the cloud to several services including Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Evernote, Huddle, and several others.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

That is, you can fold it the long way when you’re using the tablet like a laptop, or you can flip the tablet vertically and fold the kickstand horizontally. Access all kinds of Android apps through the Google Play store. The Duet supports USI styluses, but it doesn’t come with one, so that’s one advantage the CM3 brings.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

They are a target market for many manufacturers, due both to the dominance of Google Classroom across many different grade levels and also to Chromebooks’ affordable price tags (compared to similar Windows and macOS machines). Photo editing, in both Google Photos and Adobe Lightroom, was also no problem on this machine.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Lots of the games I would stream from Microsoft’s Game Pass Ultimate or Google Stadia were designed to be played on laptop or TV screens, so having the Z Fold 2’s tablet-sized screen made them a lot more usable than a smaller phone. Heck, Google Docs is actually halfway decent on this screen when you put the device in landscape mode.)

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

If it’s an article with a product recommendation — laptop, headset, what have you — there’s a good chance I’ll be looking at it at some point. Like most people at The Verge , I probably have more spreadsheets and Google Docs than I care to admit. I also have Apple’s Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. For example, staff can manage vendors via Google Docs or create questionnaires via SurveyMonkey.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

But if you’re looking for a tablet to replace your laptop or get serious work done, the Fire HD 10 is not it. The bigger software problem remains: Amazon does not have access to the Google Play Store and is therefore lacking many of the apps you are familiar with on a phone (think Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Docs, etc).

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

If you’re purely gaming, you may not need to make any adjustments to the color profile, but the out-of-the-box contrast and brightness settings were not suitable for simpler use cases, like using productivity apps — namely Gmail, Slack, or Google Docs. Everything just kind of blended together.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This ability to organize content segments, like moving post-its around on a table, makes wikis more useful than other collaborative document creation tools like Google Docs. Google docs is good if you are writing a single document or creating a single spreadsheet. He had the right people, but not the right time.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And, hey, here’s a Google doc parking lot that we set up that we want anybody who’s got issues or ideas about our technology, you can put them in here. It’s all in Google Sheets, and so if we move into a database, it’s going to make it much easier and faster for us to do our things, so efficiency.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

Every morning, he donned wireless headphones and got into his brown leather anti-gravity chair, his legs above his heart to prevent blood clots, lips wrapped around a Camelbak nipple for hydration, face surrounded by screens: television, laptops, iPads, phones. He called his new friend “Doc.”. Show me I am not. We will get this done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

DaveTV has a campaign to support the One Laptop Per Child effort. In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." Zonbu has announced a laptop version. It was covered by C|NET news. Here's why.

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